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15 October 2014

Posted on Oct 15, 2014

Apostle Speaks on 50th Commemoration of 1964 New York World’s Fair

October 15, 2014

Mormon Newsroom (Utah)

Fifty years ago, Elder L. Tom Perry, now of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, was living in Scarsdale, New York. Elder Perry, now 92, was serving as a leader in the stake over missionary work and part of that assignment included working on the committee for the 1964 New York World’s Fair in New York City, which is marking its 50th anniversary…

Elder Perry talked about his experiences at the Mormon Pavilion with a group of Latter-day Saint professionals, the New York LDS Professional Association (NYLDSPA), at the New York Riverside Church, a landmark in Manhattan, on Tuesday night, 14 October 2014.

The mountain now holds parish records and old English manuscripts dating from the 1500s, including records from London, when civil registration began in 1837, and copies of jai pu, Chinese family records, which date back before AD 1. Overall the data the Mormons have gathered is equivalent to thirty-two times the amount of information contained in the Library of Congress–and the church adds a new Library of Congress’s worth of new data every year…

On Friday night, a Highland, Utah, father-son duo appeared on the ABC hit show “Shark Tank” and flew away with a big deal for their business, “Paper Box Pilots.” More importantly to his dad Brian, 14-year-old Noah Cahoon gained a one-of-a-kind life experience.

“We didn’t go after this for the money aspect,” Brian Cahoon said on Monday. “We went at it for the experience factor. This was about giving Noah this experience in his youth that he can look back on and be confident about.”…

Although his product will be a bit different, Noah says he feels this experience is preparing him to someday serve a mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

With their uniforms and name tags, their rigorous work and study schedules, their two-year, full-time commitments to their church, the missionaries currently based at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Woodburn are not your average 19- and 20-year-olds.

But then again, they are.

“I think that’s one thing that people seem to forget, but we’re just normal people,” said Elder Bryce Johnson, a 20-year-old Utah native. “We dress differently because we believe we represent the lord by dressing nice, but we do normal things. We laugh, we joke around. We have fun when we’re working.”

The LDS Church through its humanitarian arm, LDS Charities, sent food and other emergency supplies to more than 1,500 Latter-day Saint families and others in Sierra Leone during the recent state of emergency — the Ebola-virus outbreak, which has claimed the lives of 500 citizens, including two members of the Church.

LDS Charities provided rice, cooking oil, hygiene supplies and chlorine to families in Freetown, Kissy, Lungi, Kossoh Town, Makeni, Bo and Kenema. The supplies arrived during a government-mandated, Sept. 19-21 lock down, during which families were required to stay at home and asked to reflect and pray.

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